Deze dichtbundel viert het dierenrijk met verwondering en humor, en brengt wezens uit de lucht, van het land en uit de zee levendig tot leven. Door middel van beeldende taal en charmante illustraties biedt elk gedicht een uniek perspectief op de natuurlijke wereld. Het is een boeiende kennismaking voor jonge lezers met de schoonheid en het mysterie van dieren. De serie stimuleert ontdekking en bevordert een diepe waardering voor de bewoners van de natuur.
Animals of air, land and sea are brilliantly imagined in this perfect introduction for young readers to the work of Ted Hughes. Previously unpublished poems appear with selections from Under the North Star and The Cat and the Cuckoo. Part of Hughes's Collected Animal Poems, The Iron Wolf is for the youngest readers, both to listen to and explore themselves. Chris Riddell's delightful line illustrations add to the journey of discovery.
First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award. This new, illustated edition remains 'a very beautiful book: God and his son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple questions . . . the poems are pure enchantment' (The School Librarian).
From the trembling new-born calf in Season Songs to the gently sleeping one recorded in Moortown Diary, animal life as observed in the pages of Flowers and Insects, Elmet, River, Lupercal and Hawk in the Rain is seen afresh through the diversity and imaginative energy of this collected volume.
All the richness of the wild is seen through the poet's eye. Here are poems from Hawk in the Rain, Wodwo, Wolfwatching, Lupercal and River as well as from Adam and the Sacred Nine, their juxtaposition highlighting the variety of the natural world and of Hughes's poetry about it.